Obama really is American? No Way!
The White House released Obama’s birth certificate this morning and what a shock he was actually born in the United States. So why am I covering this issue on a blog devoted to Public Relations and Communications? Do you really have to ask? This issue has had to have been the biggest PR nightmare for the White House Communications office since he took office. Obama has been in office for about 2.5 years at this point and finally some PR person decided to say “Hey, why don’t we just show people...
Read MoreiPhone Tracking You?
With reports flooding the internet that my iPhone has been tracking my whereabouts since the launch of the IOS4 software update, I was in disbelief. I know that in today’s society, the government has been hiding information from us and who knows what other technology exists that we don’t know about. But how could we ever imagine that our cell phone would be doing something so sneaky right in our pockets. I have to say that we shouldn’t be surprised by Apple pulling the wool over our eyes on this...
Read MoreThe Theology of Facebook, an Online Alter
This week I decided to flip it around a little bit. I am doing my Watchful Wednesday post on Tuesday and my Tech Tuesday on Wednesday. The reason why I am doing this is because I saw an article on CNN that I found very interesting and wanted to share and it definitly isn’t a tech story. Now I am not a religious man, but since I do currently work for a religion, I check the media for related stories to see what is out there. I found an article about how Facebook can be similiar to a religious presence in our...
Read MoreWatchful Wednesdays: Election Day
So we are one day past this years big Election day, and why wouldn’t elections be covered in real time. Politics has always been something that has captured the media attention.Of course, with sites like Twitter and Facebook, it would be crazy for news rooms and candidates not to constantly update us with the latests polls or winners. But news services have been covering the flood of election coverage since they first existed. It has been a staple point of our television schedules that we would be kept up to...
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